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You just cannot ignore social media any longer

by Peter Horsten on January 2, 2013

social media You just cannot ignore social media any longerLast weekend I presented the “Do’s and don’ts of social media” in front of a group of friends. Knowing that I’m using social media for a long time and that I was teaching about this subject at the University of Gdansk, they asked me to share my experiences with them. Upfront I realised I would have to deal with a rather preoccupied group of non-users, may be even social media haters. For social media users it’s almost impossible to imagine that there’s still such a huge group of non-users, but that’s just fact, at least in Europe. So how to convince them? [Read more...]

Tweeting while having diner happens to me as well

March 15, 2011

When someone is having a phone call in a public area we in general don’t like this. Compared to this, communicating by social networks is a lot better, less noisy. But social media can be a bit to attention consuming. It happens too me as well. Source: Geekandpoke

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Tweetboard promises more social media engagement

August 12, 2010

Tweetboard is the new kid on the social media block. This new tool, released just some days ago, promises to stimulate social media interaction among the visitors of a single website or blog. Will Tweetboard proof its value? Let’s just give it a try to find out. Just click the tiny “Tweets” label at the [...]

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NEW: HootSuite5 with HTML5, geo-search, themes, Google Analytics and native re-tweets

June 24, 2010

Today my HootSuite client was offline for a while, which was a big surprise. In general Hootsuite is a very reliable service. Fortunately, I was informed this was due to a remarkable update. Some time late I noticed significant changes to the social media dashboard beginning with a completely refreshed HTML5 user interface, plus geo-located [...]

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Update on the social media revolution

June 1, 2010

It might sound like big words: “social media revolution”, but hopefully you will agree something is happening in the online world. An increasing amount of people shares information and their opinions online. They by-pass traditional information sources and distribution channels and decide based on the opinion of like-wise people they meet online. Before I already [...]

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If you aren’t on YouTube yet, better make you are soon

March 11, 2010

I just came along a nice blog post by Drew McLellan, Social Media Cheat Sheet, where he presents the Social Landscape created by CMO.com. The sheet shows what social media can be used best depending on your personal aim. The bottom line conclusion for me is that you have to make you will be on [...]

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The tremendous impact of social media on Gen Y – your (future) clients

March 8, 2010

In my previous post I already indicated it is no longer a questions whether or not you want to use social media, because others are using it already. You will just have to follow your brand. The following YouTube movie shows clearly what’s going on. Some figures are already outdated, but for me that doesn’t [...]

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Whether or not to use social media is no longer a question

February 16, 2010

A recent study carried out by Manpower Poland shows that 60% of Polish businesses don’t feel the need to use social media (in Polish only). This result isn´t applicable to Poland alone. Recent research shows that in the US about 50% of the marketeers is using social media. In Europe this is about 34% In general a [...]

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Refollow helps you to keep track on your Twitter friends and followers

November 28, 2009

As I wrote some time ago I had quite some trouble keeping my Twitter friends and followers list clean and tidy after using some auto-follow tools. Taking part in the Twitter followers earning race I thought it would be good to follow everybody who started following me, but after some time I knew better. No [...]

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HOW TO: keep your Twitter followers list clean and tidy?

June 27, 2009

Being a Twitter user is fun, sometimes useful, addictive and can be very time consuming as well. To become a “celebrity” on Twitter it seems to be needed to have a lot of followers. Based on all kind of “spam” this is the main aim for many, because then “Twitter could become a money machine“. [...]

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